Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

My sight, hearing and strength are superior and I can fly. What more do you want?

If I were to be honest, I'm probably fifty percent bagel. Okay, fine, sixty percent.

We were each of us trying

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.

Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after.

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

China can be our partner, but that doesn't mean they can just roll all over us and steal our jobs on an unfair basis.

The Sellout is about friends and relatives who have touched me in real ways.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.